St Ann police are investigating the death of a man in Brown’s Town in the parish on Tuesday, January 3.
Dead is 69-year-old Dalbert Clarke, otherwise called ‘Delroy’, a retired plumber of Orlando, Florida in the United States of America and Discovery Bay, St. Ann.
Clarke was stabbed a week before, on Monday December 26. According to the Constabulary Communications Unit (CCU), about 3:00 a.m. on Monday, December 26, Clarke turned up at the Runaway Bay Police Station with a stab wound to the abdomen. He was assisted to the St. Ann’s Bay hospital where he was admitted in serious condition.
Clarke succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday, January 3. Police did not state if Clarke died at home.
Superintendent of police in charge of St Ann, Gary Francis told the North Coast Times on Wednesday that police were treating the matter as a death investigation. “We don’t have enough to classify it as a murder,” he said.
Police are appealing to the public for information to assist in their investigations.
